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Arts
Netta Yerushalmy’s Cabinet of Dance Curiosities
For “Paramodernities,” Ms. Yerushalmy is deconstructing works by six canonical choreographers, including Alvin Ailey and Bob Fosse.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFNsKeMbW20
The derivative is not original.
Seek beauty.
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Magazine
When It Comes to a Trade War, China Takes the Long View
Victory may go to the side that best understands the other — and Americans would do well not to underestimate Chinese resolve.Early days.
Trump is a klutz.
We will see how things develop
Robots keep getting better
People are not yet starving in the streets.
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World
U.S. Airstrike Kills Afghan Forces Amid Battle With Taliban
As the Taliban attacked a district 50 miles outside the capital, Afghan forces called for American help. But the strike mistakenly hit a police outpost, Afghans say."Overkill"
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Obituaries
Antonio Dias, Brazilian Artist Who Poked the Generals, Dies at 74
Mr. Dias took aim at the 1960s ruling junta with trenchant works of bright colors, graphic immediacy and world weariness. He later went into exile."Live fast, die young and leave a pretty corpse."
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Business Day
DealBook Briefing: The Glass Ceiling Grows Back
Indra Nooyi announced her plan to step down as PepsiCo’s C.E.O., as the number of women running S.&P. 500 companies continues to fall."Agitate, agitate and agitate"
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Opinion
Zimbabwe’s Dubious Election
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has yet to prove that the vote was fair, creating a problem for international donors and investors whose help is desperately needed to revive the country."Trust once lost is not easily regained."
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The Learning Network
Summer Reading Contest Winner, Week 6: On ‘Everyone Has an Accent’
Thank you to the teenagers who participated this week, and congratulations to Lisa Mishra, our winner, and to our many runners-up and honorable mentions.Necessary but I don't need to know.
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Magazine
Kevin McAleenan Says the Border Patrol Doesn’t Make the Laws
The commissioner of Customs and Border Protection on enforcing the Trump administration’s orders, child separation and the Abolish ICE movement.True. The rules are not laws.
He follows the rules for the job.
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U.S.
Mendocino Complex Fire in California Is Now Largest in Modern State History
The Mendocino Complex Fire, northwest of Sacramento, topped 283,000 acres on Monday, surpassing last year’s Thomas Fire.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/us/california-fires-mendocino.html
Big fire.
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Obituaries
Paul Laxalt, U.S. Senator From Nevada and Reagan Confidant, Dies at 96
Known for a firm conservatism conveyed courteously, Mr. Laxalt developed a relationship with Ronald Reagan when they were governors of neighboring states.96 can be old.
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Magazine
Some Online ‘Mobs’ Are Vicious. Others Are Perfectly Rational.
Failure to distinguish between the two is precisely what lets the vicious kind thrive.Telling the bifference is the viewer's job.
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Obituaries
Antonio Dias, Brazilian Artist Who Poked the Generals, Dies at 74
Some of his work lives on.
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U.S.
Can a Criminal Justice Advocate Unseat Ferguson’s Lead Prosecutor? Wesley Bell Will Try
On Tuesday, voters in St. Louis County will choose between Robert McCulloch, who was sharply criticized for his handling of the Michael Brown shooting, and Mr. Bell, a reform-minded challenger.Wesley Bell wins.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/us/politics/wesley-bell-st-louis-election-result.html
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World
A Top Syrian Scientist Is Killed, and Fingers Point at Israel
The car bombing was said to be at least the fourth Israeli assassination attempt against an enemy weapons engineer on foreign soil in the last three years.A fight in the shadows.
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Magazine
Kevin McAleenan Says the Border Patrol Doesn’t Make the Laws
It is a war crime to follow these rules.
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